Can Endometriosis Be Controlled By Diet? | Your Body In Balance
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Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Can endometriosis be treated by changing your diet?
In the fourth episode of the special "Your Body In Balance" series, you'll hear from Katherine Lawrence Ireland whose surgeon stopped a hysterectomy mid-procedure after discovering that her endometriosis had improved so dramatically that it had practically vanished. Doctors called it a miracle, but Katherine believed it was because she changed her diet weeks earlier.
So how could this have happened? Was it really the new foods that she had been eating that caused her endometriosis to improve?
"The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll welcomes Dr. Neal Barnard to the show get the answers. Dr. Barnard explains the nutrition science of why that "miracle" occurred in the operating room. He also details how a diet that is heavy on meat and dairy, but light on fruits and vegetables, can cause hormonal issues and fuel endometriosis.
It was a condition that nearly robbed Katherine of the opportunity to have children. Today, she is the proud mom of three boys!
Katherine has also devoted her life to helping others leading healthier lives as well. She is the founder of Food Saved Me where she imparts her wisdom and knowledge though a series of classes in the Dallas, Texas area.
Her story is just one of the many amazing transformations featured in Dr. Barnard's new book, Your Body In Balance.
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About The Book
In Your Body in Balance, Dr. Barnard describes how food and hormones play a powerful role in:
- Fertility and menopause: Learn how foods affect the hormones that play a role in fertility, premenstrual syndrome, endometriosis, menstrual cramps, and polycystic ovarian syndrome. Learn how a plant-based diet can help manage menopause and reduce symptoms, including hot flashes.
- Sex-hormone related cancers: Read the science behind how foods affect estrogen and testosterone levels and the roles they play in breast, prostate, and other forms of cancer.
- Balancing the thyroid: Read about the surprising effects of diet on hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
- Type 2 diabetes: Learn about how a healthy, plant-based diet can restore insulin function and help manage type 2 diabetes.
- Regulating metabolism: Learn how a plant-based diet can boost metabolic rate and affect how body fat is stored and burned.
The book also gives readers practical tips and resources, including answers to frequently asked questions and 65 hormone-balancing recipes developed by Lindsay Nixon.
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Chuck Carroll
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Dr. Neal Barnard
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Physicians Committee
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Katherine Lawrence
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| 0:00.0 | I said, well, is this have anything to do with my diet or what I'm eating? |
| 0:04.1 | And they said no. |
| 0:05.3 | And they said there's no cure for this. |
| 0:07.0 | You just have it. |
| 0:08.1 | Some women have it. |
| 0:09.0 | He woke me up pretty quickly afterwards. |
| 0:11.2 | He had this shocked look on his face and he said it's a miracle. |
| 0:14.3 | You know, most of your problems are gone. |
| 0:15.9 | And he said, I'm not comfortable doing this right to me. |
| 0:18.6 | We need to wait. |
| 0:19.4 | This is a miracle. |
| 0:20.4 | I've never seen anything like this. |
| 0:21.5 | And my mom said, oh, she's been doing this. |
| 0:24.4 | She's been doing this weird diet. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, hello there. |
| 0:33.1 | And welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:36.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:39.6 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen this week or a view or a download. |
| 0:44.9 | Wherever it is in the world that you are, we appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:52.2 | And my friend, you are here for the fourth episode of the special Your Body and Balance |
| 0:57.3 | series. |
| 0:58.3 | And this is one that features one of the more dramatic and heartwarming stories featured |
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